1. art and entertainment
2. movies and tv
3. movies

Smooth Operator
Creepy Campus Happenings
Fantasy Football Kick-off
Queens to launch very own Radio
station and club.
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Have you heard the Queens ghost
stories?
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Find some local fantasy foorball
teams right here at Queens.
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The Queens Chronicle
Vol. XXIII, Issue III
October 31, 2011
Dr. Rice comes to Charlotte
By William Boyd and Elizabth
Heffner
william.boyd@rexmail.queens.
edu
elizabeth.heffner@rexmail.
queens.edu
Former Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice impressed students with her self
confidence and commitment to
education during Oct. 25 appearances in Charlotte sponsored by the Learning Society
of Queens University.
In the first appearance,
several hundred Queens students and others filled Myers
Park Baptist Church’s Heaton
Hall as Dr. Rice encouraged
students to find their passion.
She also discussed foreign policy and the U.S. position in the
global economy with students
and during an evening speech
for the general public uptown
at the Blumenthal Theatre.
“She emphasized that
we need great teachers and that
she would pay great teachers
a lot of money because she
viewed education as very important,” said Olympia Agnew,
a junior biology major. “I think
her message was very relevant
to me because I want to teach
high school, and she mentioned
that being a teacher is a great,
fulfilling profession, especially
since teachers have the ability
to influence students.”
Kathleen Wile, a senior thought symposium student, said she found Dr. Rice
“very straightforward and real
with the audience. I have never
seen a speaker so confident and
Former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice speaking with students on Oct. 25.
self-assured.”
Samantha Duke, also a
senior thought symposium student, added, “I enjoyed most the
manner in which she presented
herself. She spoke calmly and
confidently, so much so that I
was hard-pressed to disagree
with any of the statements she
made, regardless of my prior
thoughts on the subject.”
Teresa Gil, a senior
psychology major, had a different perspective. “I wish I
could have asked her about her
view on the U.S. involvement
with the drug cartel issues in
Mexico,” she said.
Dr. Rice was asked
many other questions during
her visit. Queens Marketing
and Community Relations department utilized social network
Twitter to provide questions
for her to answer live during
the evening speech. Attendees
were allowed to ask questions
by passing written questions to
ushers or tweeting @QueensUniv, Queens official Twitter
handle, questions for Rice with
the hashtag #Condoleezza.
It wasn’t the first
time this was attempted. Stu-
Photo provided by Queens
dents were encouraged to tweet
questions when Fareed Zakaria spoke in the Chapel but
it wasn’t made well known so
very few took part, according
to Vanessa Willis, director of
communication in MCR.
This time the information was announced by moderator, Dr. Lynn Morton, the Dean
of Arts and Sciences College,
and shown on the screen right
before the Q&A session began.
At both events, students in the
Critical Thought Symposium,
a year-long class dedicated to
developing critical thinking and
leadership skills using role play
to address case studies, initiated the Q&A portion with their
questions and before the session was opened to the general
audience.
The Learning Society,
a group of influential Charlotte
locals who work to bring renowned speakers to Queens and
the Charlotte area, brought Rice
here.
During her speeches,
Dr. Rice called the education
gap between the U.S. and the
rest of the world a complicated,
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By Aniyah Pendleton
aniyah.pendleton@rexmail.
queens.edu
Esera Tuaolo, a former 300-pound defensive lineman in the National Football
League, came to Queens to recount the trials and tribulations
about being gay in an ultramacho world. As a reminder of
the prejudices that continue to
follow him, some greeted his
arrival by defacing posters promoting his appearance with homophobic and derogatory slurs.
“These slurs tear at
the fabric of any community,
but are particularly repugnant
on a college campus dedicated
to higher learning,” Dean of
Students John Downey said of
the defaced posters in Wireman
Residence Hall.
In his Oct. 20 speech
at Queens, Tuaolo recounted
his fear of rejection and ridicule during his nine years in
the NFL before finally deciding
to disclose that he was gay on
“HBO Real Sports” in 2002 after his retirement from football.
He played for five
teams, including for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1999 Super
Bowl, and a stint with the Carolina Panthers. A Samoan who
grew up in Hawaii, Tuaolo also
was known as the first player
to sing the national anthem and
then start an NFL game, when
he played for the Green Bay
Packers.
Tuaolo said he hid his
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Esera Tuaolo speaks to inspire
Esera Tuaolo with Chelsey Sanderson and Gabrielle Keleher.
Photo By William Boyd
The Queens Chronicle
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October 31, 2011
Paper vs. Electronic: One professor
moves into the digital age completely
By Cameo Kizzie
cameo.kizzie@rexmail.queens.
edu
Carrying stacks of paper from home to class and
back home is the ideal profile
of most professors at Queens –
but not Justin Cary.
Cary is an adjunct
English
professor
teaching
Composition 1 to freshmen.
The focus of his class is music and history. The main difference between his class and
other freshman writing classes
is his class is totally digital.
Cary wasn’t satisfied
with just “using technology just
to use it” so he revamped the
way his class would use the
blogging sites by allowing them
to post on specific topics that
interested them. “Students would record a video response to an
article read on YouTube then
post it on their blog,” he says.
Other than using Tumblr, Facebook was used for missed assignments. Cary uses a variety
of social network sites to engage his class in as he calls it
“live writing,” which he defines
as the ability to write “to an
audience outside of the room
they’re in.”
This live writing has
pushed Cary back in the classroom and has brought students
forth as independent students
and authors of their own work.
Cary likes the fact that students
don’t need him in the picture,
but he also doesn’t want that to
get too out of hand.
Live writing refers to
the student being able to write
to live audiences through the
media, social networks, newspapers, etc. In reference to
him being pushed back in the
classroom, Cary means that he
is not playing the role as the
traditional teacher. “They don’t
need me to stand in front of
the classroom and tell them
what to do,” he says.
Cary believes in the
teacher being in charge, but
also believes in the students
taking the lead in the classroom
-- showing him what they’ve
learned through blogging and
teaching each other concepts
through social networks. Live
writing differs from the traditional writing in English classes
by directing the style of writing to an audience that is not
in the class. So, this means
students have to expound more
on details that wouldn’t need to
be expounded on in a Queens
classroom.
Cary also encourages
students to create professional Facebook accounts outside
their personal accounts. He has
taken protective privacy measures when creating the class
Facebook group by making the
group private.
For students who are
strictly opposed to using Facebook, Cary says, “I accommodate them.” Cary accommodates
his students by emailing them
the assignments.
Although everything is
digital in his classroom, Cary
still has room to leave comments on his students work.
“I prefer making comments
electronically versus putting a
big red letter grade at the top
of their paper. Leaving comments digitally gives me room
to highlight confusing text and
ask them questions.”
Cary, not only being
an adjunct professor at Queens,
works for UNC Charlotte and
has worked for other colleges
part time. The idea of moving from a print classroom to
a digitial classroom came from
him watching other teachers
carry around huge briefcases
filled with papers. “I didn’t
want to be that type of teacher,” he says.
Cary moved toward
making his classroom fully
digital the spring of 2011, but
most recently incorporated it
this semester. This semester
will make the first semester
that Cary has a fully digital
classroom.
Clarke
Eaves,
one
of Cary’s former students,
switched to his freshman English class after previously signing up for another that did not
interest her and required her
to write “thousands of papers”
she says “I was in a different English class before his
and my teacher expected me
to write thousands of papers
about the environment and politics which I do not really care
for. I wasted so much paper
and I felt like I was not really
learning from my other teacher
but when I switched over to
Professor Cary's class I got to
discuss things I liked.”
In addition to the
Facebook group, Cary’s students create a Wix account.
Wix is a site that allows the
user to create different websites
of their choice. It’s free and
easy to use, for a creative way
to present a project or assignment. His class also uses Tumblr, Blogger, YouTube, Gmail,
Google Docs and Word Press.
Cary also uses Twitter
By Ashley Spinner
ashley.spinner@rexmail.queens.
edu
I never understood the
importance of time until I grew
older. Now, at the age of 27, I
get it and I had to learn what
was important and what wasn’t.
My choice to party
and live way beyond the scope
of my means proved to be disastrous. At the age of 18, I
choose to be another cliché’, a
small town girl with big time
problems, who drowned her
miserable circumstance with
Jack Daniels and Mad Dog
20/20. I was in and out of
colleges, my mother gave up
on the illusion that one day I
would actually finish my degree and have a decent career.
Through my cloud of
hangovers, I learned that the
idea of ‘finding yourself’ was
a croc. The only thing I found
was that I was a moron. The
bills weren’t going to stop
coming and my friends weren’t
going to put food on the table.
Eventually, I settled on building a reputable career in Early
Childhood Education. In my
mid-20’s, I managed to settle
on starting a degree program
at Queens focusing on Creative
Writing, a passion that I had
since I was a pre-teen.
To me when I listen to
conversations or being told an
overly dramatic expose’ on the
woes of campus life, I find incredibly comical and sometimes
annoying. The one complaint I
my first encounter is with a
two year old child and by 9
a.m I have 18 more. Once they
leave my classroom, the rest of
my morning is teaching Pre-K
children literacy, math and social skills. I also have to say
things such as “it is never a
good idea to eat paste” or “you
will never see another marker
again if I catch you putting it
up your nose.” At nap time,
Photo provided by Justin Cary
Professor Cary posing at a Barnes & Noble book signing
for his book, The Twinning.
in the classroom to engage his
students in discussions, “I do
ask them to talk during class
discussions but if they don’t
want to then I allow them to
get on the hash-tag on Twitter
and tweet their response.” He
believes this method allows for
more interesting class discussions and freedom of speech in
the classroom.
Social networking sites
are integrated in Cary’s classroom to make class work fun
and easy, but Cary doesn’t neglect the fact that the school
has websites such as Moodle
set up to share information with
students. “I do use Moodle to
put up important documents because I feel like in a way it’s
a requirement.”
Eaves says, “I think
an English Comp class is more
than just writing a bunch of
papers. It’s about actual learning. I think it is truly amazing
that he is making his class all
digital. We’re all growing up in
a world where writing papers is
old news and he is preparing
us for the future,” she says.
My drive to campus
is not any easier either. Cars
whiz by me as I am doing 70
miles an hour on Providence
Road. In the car, I manage to
eat a snack I stole from work
and finish up reading at a stoplight. Once I have spent 20
minutes searching for parking,
I have three minutes to make
it to McEwen and two minutes
to use the bathroom. I manage
to get a quick glimpse in the
mirror and realize that my hair
makes me look like Charles
Manson’s love child. When I
finally make it home, which is
right on the outskirts of Blakeney in Ballantyne, I catch up
on General Hospital and Modern Family, shoveling a spoonful of cereal in one hand and
finishing a linguistics assignment with the other.
I do this four days a
week for five classes. To be
frank, I am exhausted. However, my assignments get done
and I do it with no complaints.
I have to make it work because I have to work, which
for the most part is the general
consensus for adult learners.
Do I have regrets? Yes. Do
I dwell on them? No. I have
to consider the bigger picture
and I fully understand that my
choices led me here and this
is only temporary.
In order to help further
integrate Traditional Undergraduate students and Hayworth
students there needs to be a
stronger level of understanding.
I want to urge the TUG students to find a Hayworth student on campus, offer them a
little encouragement or a cup
of coffee. Talk to them about
your scheduling conflicts and
then listen to theirs.
Consider that your circumstances could have been
different and learn to use your
time wisely. Hayworth students,
I urge you to find the time to
talk to TUG students and get a
sense of what they have to say.
You may be surprised to learn
that although your experiences
may be different, your feelings
about your current situation
may be the same.
The essence of time
“In order to help further integrate TUG
students and Hayworth students there
needs to be a stronger level of understanding.” -Ashley Spinner
hear most often is ‘when I am
supposed to find the time to
do this?’ I just want to shout
‘You don’t have time? Try living my life for one day!’
My day starts at 5 a.m.
Monday through Friday. By 6
a.m I am driving out to Weddington, N.C. On a good day
it takes me 15 minutes to get
to my job. Once I get there,
I am typing up lesson plans
and workshop responses for
my Writing of Fiction class; I
am preparing for parent teacher
conferences and reading The
Sun Also Rises. On my lunch
break, I am napping in my car
out in the parking lot trying to
catch up on at least one hour
of the four hours of sleep that
I missed the night before.
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October 31, 2011
Entertainment
Why do we fear the Monster Movie?
By Adam Raby
adam.raby@rexmail.queens.edu
Someone’s opinion on
horror movies is a very private
and subjective matter. I for one
believe that 95 percent of all
horror movies that get made,
have been made, and will be
made are absolute rubbish.
Terrible bodice-rippers
armed with a glinting hatchet
and an unsettling smile. The
kind that makes you think you
are in on its little joke until
you turn around and there’s another jump-cut that leads to a
particularly gory death.
The thing is, horror movies are very important to people because no two
people have the same opinion
or thoughts on what make a
horror movie good. There can
be close enough overlaps between people’s tastes that bring
them together to enjoy a similar movie, but when it comes
down to it all horror movies
rely on the simple linchpin of
scary. Is it scary? Who is it
scaring? Why are we scared?
Obviously, the single
most important crux of a horror film rests on the assumption that whatever it is that
is driving the plot is menacing
enough to strike fear in the
hearts of the viewers. Because
that’s the whole point. People
don’t go see the new slice-anddice paint by numbers horror
thriller because they are mildly amused at the nubile teens
slashed to pieces. They do it
because it touches a deep part
of them and shakes them to
their core.
Fear tends to break
down into two types – the fear
that irks and bothers you and
the fear that makes you physically incapable of breathing.
I have a certain friend
who saw the first Child’s Play
(a run of the mill 80’s slasher
movie about a spirit of a killer possessing a kid’s doll that
has spun-off into a ludicrous
amount of sequels) movie when
he was at the ripe young age
of way too young. And even
to this day he is completely
unsettled around dolls of any
type. He will flinch when seeing certain dolls. I can watch
Child’s Play and laugh myself
silly. It’s a movie about an evil
spirit possessing a doll that can
easily be run through a shredder. This fear holds no sway
over me.
Every horror story tries
it’s hardest to tap into a shared
collective fear. An overarching
fear that can bring people together through their collective
revulsion. Aliens involve the
fear of the other. It’s the horrible feeling that comes with
meeting new people and wondering whether they are actually going to play nice. Zombies evoke the fear of large
amounts of people and falling
irreversibly into a group that
does nothing but wrong to other people.
Murderous
monsters
that rend normal people limb
from limb are bad enough to
begin with, but what really sets
people off is the deep unconscious dread that resides within
Photo provided by Wikipedia
Frankenstein’s monster: The most famous “monster” of
all
ourselves to begin with.
Horror movies take
the most shameful part of ourselves, what we really dread
in society and then turn them
inside out and reveal them to
the world.
So what is your favorite
Horror film or monster? What
do you think this means about
you and your fears? E-mail us at
adam.raby@rexmail.queens.edu.
I always think about the music
video and how scared I was
when I first saw it. It gave me
a nightmare when I was a little
kid. The memory of seeing it
for the first time is timeless for
me. Hearing the song brings me
back to that childhood memory.
It renews that childhood fear
that we can come to appreciate in our lives. I was so
young and innocent and afraid.
Also, it’s on my bucketlist. I
will learn the entire dance of
Thriller before I die.
It’s really fun. Not scary, but a
lot of fun to listen to. Got that
old sound to it.
Who you gonna call???
The time of ghosts and
ghouls are upon us. The Chronicle staff gathered and reminisced
about some of the “classic” Halloween tunes that are sure to be
shrieking at any self-respecting
party
Ghostbusters Theme - Ray
Parker Jr.
Adam Raby: GHOSTBUSTIN’
MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!
Elli McGuire: It brings back
pleasant childhood memories.
Watching Ghostbusters was
something my whole family did. It wasn’t a Halloween
thing, it was a family thing. It
reminds me of more than just
Halloween, that’s why I like it.
Will Boyd: I always think of
Bill Murray, and he’s so funny.
What a funny guy. Also that
song is so 80’s, is it not. It’s
pretty 80’s. I like it though, it’s
uptempo and interesting. And
of course whenever you hear
it in the first five seconds you
know it’s Ghostbuster. I would
say Ghost-Bustin’ makes me
feel good.
Alex Stocking: If I tell you
what Ghostbusters theme means
to me, you might slap me.
I have never heard it all the
way through. Ehhh, it’s not
bad. I just can’t form an accurate opinion without seeing
the movie all the way. (Adam’s
Editor note: This is Ghostbustin’ sacrilige. Booo I say. I am
a ghost. Prepare to bust me)
Liz Heffner: I don’t think I
know the ghostbusters song,
wait the “who you gonna call,
Ghostbusters?” That one? It’s
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris”
Pickett
Photo provided by Huffington Post
Picture of the famous “Ghostbusters.”
hard to give an opinion because
I haven’t heard it in forever. It
was such a big deal in the 90’s
when I was growing up listening to it. I can gurantee you I
haven’t heard the Ghostbusters
song or seen the movies in the
past 10 years.
Elli: I’m a little done with
Thriller to be honest with you.
It’s a little overkill since he
died. There was just an overkill
of all of his music and I have
just been burned out on it. I
appreciate it, but I just can’t
listen to it anymore.
Adam: I ain’t afraid of no
ghosts.
Alex: I share the same views
with Elli. It’s kind of an overkill now.
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Adam: Now it’s time for me to
make a horrible confession. I
hate Thriller. I hate that stupid
little dance that the zombies
do. It’s too long. It’s too much
the same. The only thing that’s
even slightly redeemable is the
Vincent Price part at the end
because I can listen to Vincent rattle on about anything.
But this song is like a zombie,
slowly shambling towards an
over-bloated end. And it just.
Won’t. Die.
Liz: I actually didn’t really like
Thriller until I got into college. I think it’s a fun song
to dance to, and I remember
my freshman year one of the
RA’s got a group of random
people together to do the dance
and learn the choreography and
do it at the Halloween dance.
That really triggered my appreciation for the song. It’s sort
of become a classic Halloween
dance song for me.
Will: Michael Jackson’s Thriller,
obviously it’s a bit overplayed.
Elli: It might be my favorite,
well it’s not my favorite, but
it’s close. I would say it’s perfect in the right setting. It’s not
something I’d listen to on the
fly. It’s something I’d have to
hear in a specific Halloween
environment.
Adam: This song. If there ever
was a encyclopedia article of
the song that will never leave
your head once it’s caught in
there, it must be the Monster
Mash. It’s so cheesy. It’s so
60’s. It most certainly is a
beautifully cheesy product of
it’s time. Yet there is so much
fun hidden behind the veneer
of cheese. It caught on in a
flash, and I will probably listen
to it again and again and again
before November 1st.
Liz: It’s not my favorite Halloween song. But I can still appreciate the childhood nostalgia
it brings up. That’s about it.
Will: I don’t know much about
the Monster Mash, but I’ve
danced to it on Just Dance 2.
Alex: I like it but I feel like
it’s another one of those overplayed ones. I don’t really have
a. . . Yeah that’s about it.
Favorite Spooky/Scary Song:
Will: Somebody’s Watchin’ Me
by Rockwell. It’s so groovy,
and it’s Michael Jacksonesque
without being overplayed like
Thriller.
Liz: Come Little Children from
Hocus Pocus. I like the lyrics
as well as the accompanyment.
It’s not extremely creepy, but it
has the little edge to it. And
it’s a song from one of my favorite Halloween movies, which
helps.
Elli: Grim Grinning Ghosts
from the Haunted Mansion. It’s
the first Halloween song that I
remember hearing. I have a lot
of good memories of playing
when I was getting ready for
trick-or-treating.
Alex: I don’t really have a favorite Spooky song. I was a
sheltered child.
Adam: The Shankill Butchers by the Decemberists is not
really a Halloween song. Instead it’s a whispered warning
from the unknown narrator. No
joy lies in the voice of Colin
Meloy as he warbles about the
titular Butchers and how “killing is their only source of joy.”
It’s human, and haunting in a
way that monsters are not.
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October 31, 2011
Commentary
Occupy Wall St. spreads across the country
By Michael Schramm
michael.schramm@rexmail.
queens.edu
The news media will
finally be compelled to give
the overarching Occupy movement the greater coverage that
it warrants following the police
raids of Occupy Atlanta and
Occupy Oakland on Oct. 24
and 26.
Evictions in both cities and violence in Oakland are
regrettable, but Occupy now
stands a solid chance of rebounding its way into a more
permanent place in newscasts.
This is important because although discussion of
Occupy has intensified between
some of my peers, I’m aware
just how unaware the majority
of our generation is on the issue. I confess that it wasn’t
until a friend of mine returned
from a Teaching Fellows trip to
Boston over fall break with stories to tell about Occupy Boston that I ever batted an eye
on the subject. Since then, I’ve
engaged in the Occupy conversation and discovered a disturbing lack of knowledge about
the movement.
Whether I support Occupy or not isn’t relevant. What
matters is learning about it for
ourselves.
Unfortunately,
that’s
been tough to do until recently. Occupy was strangely
ignored by major media outlets throughout its first month.
This makes sense, though: one
can’t expect that a news outlet,
funded through corporate money and interests, would cast an
illuminating light on a nascent
movement driven to reform the
very institutions that the media relies upon. Now, rapidly
growing affiliate movements
and the greater police responses
they incite are finally holding
America’s attention, and it’s a
good opportunity to learn about
this call for change.
At the bottom of everything, Occupy Wall Street
and its various, loosely connected affiliates are intent on
expressing their dissatisfaction
with the way things are. Common items of focus have been
the grossly unequal distribution
of wealth, the stranglehold that
big corporations have over government, and the lack of voice
that middle and lower class
America have to shout with. It’s a sense of discontent over
what they see as an unfair and
systematic exploitation of the
common people.
True, the complaints of
several critics that the movement has failed to produce a
unified set of demands and intended reforms are completely
accurate. They’re also completely irrelevant. I agree with
the observation of an editorial
published Oct. 8 in The New
York Times on the issue. “At
this point, protest is the message...it is not the job of the
protesters to draft legislation. That’s the job of the nation’s
leaders, and if they had been
doing it all along there might
not be a need for these marches and rallies...because they
have not, the public airing of
grievances is a legitimate and
important end in itself.”
Protest is long overdue. As a nation, we’ve suffered recession, financial collapse, bailouts, absurd amounts
of personal and national debt,
a lack of jobs, and a seemingly broken political system. These are burdens under which
the common class American is
limping, but it is our own temerity that has suffered most. Finally, it seems that people
have had enough with the status quo and want to talk with
others to find out how things
can get better.
I don’t know if I’ll
end up agreeing with the issues
and means of resolving them
that will come forth from Occupy. The question of whether
to support Occupy or not is
one that the media brings up
and will soon be a common
point of discussion for our generation.
That’s a shame, though. I don’t think that our first obligation is to support or decry
Occupy. That decision-making
part comes later, and will be
different for each person. What
matters more, at least right now,
is that our generation listen to
what they and our peers are
saying, pay attention, and think
Photo provided by International Business Times: United States Edition
Protesters gather at a march in New York, N.Y. The group, known as Occupy Wall St.,
was the first group to appear in the United States.
about it.
Maybe Occupy will
further polarize the country, and
maybe we’ll identify our political allegiances by whether we
were there on Wall Street, or
perhaps supported it from afar,
or maybe just exclaimed how
insane we thought the whole
thing was. I can’t say that I
don’t care whether people support it or not; I’d be lying, and
worse, I’d be engaging in the
same kind of apathy that has
gotten our nation into most of
its messes.
Whether I support it
or not is a sentiment wholly
supplanted by a more immediate sense of gratefulness. I’m
grateful to know that there can
be solidarity if one desires it,
that there can be expression if
one demands it, and that there
can be progress if we bolster
and engage one another in discourse.
Our country’s not had
a discussion or display like this
in decades. It’s a civil obligation to read up on it, think
about it, and most importantly
talk about it. That’s the democratic discourse that is so sorely
missing today. Now it’s your
turn to think about and pass
along, because an idea’s only
relevant if it’s being thought
upon.
The Queens Chronicle
Photo provided by 90.9 WBUR
Police talking with protesters in Boston.
Protestors are arrested by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police
Officers.
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The Queens Chronicle
5
October 31, 2011
Paranormal activity haunts Queens
People will always argue whether ghosts are fable or fact. But no matter what the actual truth is, there are
many stories told by both students and faculty about their own experiences with the haunting at Queens.
Morrison Hall:
Albright:
Student Life Building & Dining Hall
The Queens community has learned to
live with these hauntings in different ways. Warfield and Newman have both found unique ways
to work around these chilling situations. Warfield
admitted to making loud statements assuring her
that everything is OK and to not be afraid. Newman found her comfort through humor. “We decided to name the ghost Penelope,” said Newman.
Residence Hall
Legend has it…
Back
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Albright tends to be the home of freshman
Photo By Jessica Bunch
A look from the side of Harrison Hall.
Sarrin Warfield, associate director of Residence Life,
tells of witnessing some spooky activity in Morrison
Hall. And it’s not just a one-time occurrence. She says
it’s not uncommon for her to see the strange activity.
“Sometimes I come in and my drawers are
open, and I don’t know if it’s just the desk, but it’s
interesting,” said Warfield.
Occasionally, Warfield will work into the late
hours of the night after the doors of Morrison have
been locked. Knowing that no one else is in the
building, she’ll hear the floors creek as if someone is
walking down the hall.
“It’s like someone is just moseying down the
hallway,” Warfield said.
Albright Residence Hall, one of the oldest
all-freshman dorms on campus, has a reputation for
frequent paranormal activity.
Freshman Clay Goodman encountered frightening happenings while in Albright in the late hours
of the night. “I was sitting in the hall with a friend,
and all the sudden we started to hear someone running
down the adjacent hall. We went to check who was
making the racket, and when we got down the hall,
the running suddenly stopped, and there was no one
there,” said Goodman.
Another freshman living in Albright, Sophia
Newman, has her own story of ghostly encounters.
“During the night, from inside my closet, I’ll sometimes hear rattling, like someone would be inside the
closet trying to get out,” said Newman.
Newman says that she often will see her door
knob twist as if someone is about to walk into her
room, but will check and open the door to an empty
hall. The strangest occurrence that Newman has seen
was when she once returned to her room to find a
used towel that she had left on her bed folded and
placed back on her towel rack. “My roommate said
that she didn’t do it,” said Newman.
when Queens was still an all
girls’ school, what is now known as Morrison
was one of the residential halls. A young girl
who lived in the residential hall was in a
relationship with a military boy. Not long after the relationship ended in tragedy, she was
found hung on the back stairwell; the area
where they found her is now barred to prevent such an incident from happening again.
Warfield’s office, room 218, and the adjoining office, room 220, is where her dorm was
located. She is believed to haunt the halls
and the area where her dorm was located.
Legend has it…
Years ago in Albright Residence Hall,
there lived two roommates who fell in love.
One of the girl’s parents found out about
their lesbian relationship and didn’t approve,
so the heartbroken girl hung herself in her
closet. The girl is believed to haunt the floors
of Albright, still broken hearted.
Nichols architects Queens master plan
Photo provided by Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols is responsible for the way campus looks.
By Elli McGuire
ellen.mcguire@rexmail.queens.
edu
The beauty of Queens
campus has been one of the
university’s
biggest
selling
points to prospective students.
However, many still don’t know
who is behind the curtain, orchestrating the plans to transform the campus while preserving its beauty.
The man behind the
plan is Bill Nichols, who joined
Queens six years ago with the
intent of creating a master plan.
It will govern campus development and will involve growth
and change on the Main Campus, the Sports Complex, Fifth
Street and North Residence
hall, including landmarks already under construction such
as the Rogers Science & Health
Building and the Levine Center for Wellness and Recre-
ation.
For
Nichols,
these
multi-million dollar projects and
large-scale landscape changes
are just the beginning of his
vision, and he’s enjoying every
minute of making it happen.
“It’s just a passion of mine,”
he says. “I love construction; I
love building and I love architecture.”
When Nichols came to
Queens, he was no stranger to
designing for the college setting. He previously worked
as a partner with Lee-Nichols
Architecture and specialized in
university projects, including on
much larger campuses including
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
But it was important to
him to start with a completely
new slate. “The first thing I did
when I came here, was I sat
down and interviewed faculty,
staff, students, alumni,” he says.
“I did over 100 interviews, just
trying to learn what exactly the
needs were here.”
The first projects were
mostly renovations based upon
these findings, such as turning
the bottom of Morrison from
a storage room into the Lions
Den. At the same time, Harris
House was fixed up and the
admissions office was moved.
West Residence Hall was also
renovated to match the first
buildings ever built on campus.
The
projects
were
about to get a lot bigger. As
he had done for many campuses before, Nichols developed a
master plan for Queens, a process that took roughly a year.
“We presented the master plan
to the Board of Trustees in the
Spring of 2006, and they approved it,” he says.
Queens is well-known
in the Myers Park community
for its calm atmosphere, and
naturally some concern was expressed over the magnitude of
construction that would be taking place all at once. Yet the
majority of the concern among
students has been not about the
construction itself, but the appearance of the campus when
construction is completed.
“The aesthetic appeal
was actually a huge deciding
factor in my choice to attend
this school,” says Taylor Park,
a freshman and Teaching Fel-
low. “I had a lot of other options, but Queens’ small, old,
historic feel allowed me to see
myself living year for the next
four years.”
Senior William Ward
III had similar feelings when
he came to school almost four
years ago. “When I first set
foot on campus, it was very
small, yet homey, and that’s
what made the institution attractive to me. With these
changes, I think that’s going
to attract more students. I only
hope that we continue to have
that homey, close family feeling.”
Nichols agrees it’s important to preserve the feeling.
“Just like I went to University
of Virginia because of what
the campus looked like, I think
young people today make that
same kind of decision.”
Asked how it feels to
be in charge of a university’s
growth for the next 10 or so
years, he replies with a smile,
“I’m just glad to be a part of
the process, being a part of
the leadership. It’s going to be
an amazing place when all of
these buildings are done. I wish
I could be a student here.”
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6
October 31, 2011
Defaced posters mar Queens visit
Continued from page 1
true sexuality from the world
to the point it began to eat
away at his happiness, beginning in his childhood. Every
time he thought it was safe to
come out, he would hear negative comments, causing him to
crawl deeper into his shell of
secrecy. Tuaolo was constantly paranoid about having the
world learn he was gay, fearing
that piece of information would
cause him to lose everything he
held dear.
Having growing up in
a Pentecostal church, music became his life starting at the
age of 5. He said music also
helped to save his life, crediting the song “In the Arms of
An Angel” for preventing him
from committing suicide.
He said his decision to
come out in 2002 was for the
sake of his two children, a boy
and a girl.
Tuaolo felt as though
he had been “set free from
prison” when he came out. “If
I didn’t take that step forward,
I would be a statistic. I would
be 6 feet under.”
Tuaolo said a change
can be seen in the way people
act toward homosexuality, particularly when they are held accountable for the things they
say. Still, he added, slurs can
lead to deadly consequences
and must be taken seriously.
“Words don’t hurt,” he said.
“Words kill.”
As for the defaced
poster, Jade Kulick, RA on
Wireman’s third floor, agrees
with Dean Downey. “I think
it’s a good idea that people are
taking [the vandalism] seriously.
It’s good for Queens to build
up a gay-friendly community.”
Campus Union Board members
Chelsea Sanderson and Gabrielle Keleher brought Tuaolo to
campus as one of their required
events.
Sanderson says, “We
recognize that this year our
community is extremely diverse
and we wanted to make sure
we represented [the LGBT]
community as well as other
styles of life. We brought in
Esera because he isn’t just a
LGBT activist he is also a Pacific Islander and an athlete,
someone applicable to many
different facets of the Queens
community.”
Campus police knocked
on every door in the residence
hall to gather more information
about who could have been responsible.
By Elizabeth Heffner
elizabeth.heffner@rexmail.
queens.edu
Hip-hop music pulses
in the background of West
Residence Hall lobby. Students
congregate around the couches
chatting among themselves. Junior Max Kaczynski clears his
throat and pauses the music.
Thus begins the first meeting
of the Queens radio club, officially named Project Airwaves.
Kaczynski, the mastermind behind this latest attempt,
believes he has a plan to finally get on the air.
Again faced with resistance for funding for a traditional radio station, Kacyznski
is planning to create a website
in which podcasts of the shows
and music will be available for
students, faculty, staff and the
surrounding Charlotte area.
In order to gauge what
genres of music and shows students were interested in, Kacyznski created an online survey last month. Approximately
134 students responded. Based
on the feedback, he found that
over 50 percent of the survey
takers wanted Top 40 music,
followed by hip-hop. Kacyznski
hopes to also incorporate music
from various cultures as well to
diversify the mix.
The survey also found
that students preferred an evening and late night show. Kacyznski’s goal is to have the
podcast run twice—once during
the hours between 4 p.m. and
6 p.m. as well as from 9 p.m.
Students, as well as faculty
members and special guests,
would be heard.
One of the ideas club
members had for podcast topics
was to incorporate study sessions into the programming. “If
there was a Core test coming
up, we would have the study
guide answers available to stu-
dents,” said Kacyznski.
Students could also tweet
their questions, allowing upperclassmen radio club members
who had taken these courses
to respond.
Prize incentives were also
discussed at the meeting. One
idea an anonymous survey respondent gave was to create a
campus scavenger hunt, thus
promoting listener interaction.
During the meeting, Kaczynski gave the example of hiding
something in Diana Fountain.
In the podcast, students would
be given a clue, signaling when
to begin the hunt.
One benefit of creating
a website to host the podcasts
is that blogging could also be
incorporated. Club members
could blog about upcoming
music performances and events
around Charlotte that might interest the Queens community. Senior
Emily
Koll
fully supports creating a radio
program on campus. “I think
it’s a great idea because we
have a lot of physical expansion going on across campus.
It makes sense that we would
have more communication mediums offered since we’re trying to become a better matriculated institution,” said Koll.
Project
Airwaves
member and junior Whitley
Holbrook is also enthusiastic
about the radio program. “Lots
of schools have them, and it
would be something cool for
people to listen to and hear
their friends. A lot of cool discussions could get started that
way, and it would help keep
people informed about world
issues and stuff that's going on
around campus,” said Holbrook.
She also feels that student musicians could also share their
talent through this new medium
as well.
Initially, Holbrook had
some doubts about putting the
program online as opposed to
a physical station. “At first I
wasn't really into that idea,
but then Max explained how
it would cost more money to
use an actual radio station. Although it would be cool to be
able to drive around Charlotte
and hear our school, it's not
practical right now,” said Holbrook. She adds that in using
a website as a medium, people
have more freedom to listen to
the program in various locations.
For Kaczynski, the initiative is the latest chapter in a
life immersed in the music culture. “I’ve been singing all my
life. It’s my passion,” he said.
He began singing career in elementary school, progressing
into more experienced groups
as he grew older.
After assisting a DJ in
2007 for a year, he moved onto
becoming a full-time DJ. His
love for music is apparent in
his dedication to various music
venues. “You’re picking songs
that tell a story. Music can
make it or break it, and I love
that,” said Kacyznski.
Starting a radio station,
Kacyznski says, is just another
way to channel his passion for
music. “The idea is to form a
club and get everyone on board
with the same goal and vision,”
said Kacyznski. In the past few years,
students have made attempts at
forming a radio station for the
university. “I know in the past
that there wasn’t a club [for the
radio station],” said Kacyznski.
Junior Brie Singletary,
a member of the former radio
club, explained that their biggest struggle was how to market
the station. “We didn't want to
be a club. We wanted to have
more creativity than being under a Queen's program because
Anyone with information about the defaced poster are
encouraged to call Campus Police at 704 337-2306
For more on Tuaolo’s
story, see his autobiography,
“Alone in the Trenches: My Life
as a Gay Man in the NFL” anywhere books are sold.
Photo provided by OutSports
Esera Tuaolo singing the national anthem at an Atlanta
Falcons game.
Project Airwaves takes flight
Art provided by Max Kaczynski
Project Airwave meets next on November 9th at 8:30pm
of the stigma we would have
to uphold. Not that it would
be raunchy, but we wanted to
be able to play the music we
wanted and talked about anything we desired like a real
radio station,” said Singletary.
Kaczynski’s
ultimate
goal is to transform Project
Airwaves into a paid position
for students involved. “Through
this venture, we’re not only
serving the community, but empowering college students to
voice their opinions and express
their creativity. It’s also a great
way to build your portfolio.”
Interested in joining
Project Airwaves? Email Max
Kacyznski at max.kacyznski@
rexmail.queens.edu. The next
meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 9 at 8:30 p.m. in
Dana 110.
Want to talk about the
radio program on Twitter? Just
add #projectairwaves to your
tweets.
Want your opinion
heard? Take the survey by using
the QR Code below!
The Queens Chronicle
7
October 31, 2011
Miss The Penguin? Try Pinky’s!
By Autumn Cutter
autumn.cutter@rexmail.queens.
edu
If you are opposed to
an awesome place, with cool
people, that serves great food
for prices cheaper than McDonalds. no offense, but I’d stop
reading here because this place
isn’t for you. I’m talking of
course about Pinky’s Westside
Grill. Some of y’all may have
already experienced Pinky’s or
may have just seen the place
whilst venturing around the
Charlotte area (the old-school
Volkswagen Bug on the roof
makes it hard to miss!). For
some, you may just now be
hearing about this place. Feel
lucky.
Lets get the basics out
on the table first shall we?
Pinky’s Westside Grill, if you
haven’t already guessed, is a
restaurant and bar. It is located
on the Westside of Charlotte in
a comfy sized place that was
once an automotive shop that
has now turned fabulous. It’s
definitely not a fancy-type restaurant. Most employees have
intriguing tattoos and there’s
crazy cool stuff hanging on the
walls. For example, there’re a
few paintings done for Pinky’s
by local artists as well as the
hood of a car and other randomness. They also have a
photo-booth, a Miss Pac-Man
arcade machine, and a jukebox
for excellent tunes.
The menu at Pinky’s
is certainly an interesting one.
They don’t necessarily have
your typical “bar” foods because they’re not really a bar,
but neither could I say they
have “American”style food because, well, they have things
like Falafel Balls. But, they
sure have some southern roots.
My first experience in
Pinky’s was one long overdue.
I looked over the menu, but
couldn’t help but be distracted
by its categorical lingo and witty names for every menu item.
It’s all so creative and humorous and you can’t help but
to look at everything on the
menu twice over. Particularly,
the Wiener Wonderland. I also
couldn’t help but wonder about
the Kinda Fried Turkey Sandwich, or Da Pimp, and thought
to myself “what the hell is a
Stray Dog?”
“ Corn Dog Shrimp?”
Please and thank you! The cherries on top of the already wondrous sounding menu were the
Fish Tacos. Everyone loves tacos! Pinky’s keeps such a vast
Photo provided by Yelp.com
Pinky’s is a great replacement for the beloved Penguin. It can be found on the corner of West Morehead Street and
Freedom Drive.
Interested in going to Pinky’s?
Address: 1600 W. Morehead St. Charlotte, N.C.
Phone #: (704)332-0402
Hours of Operation:
Mon. - Thurs.: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Fri. and Sat.: 11 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Sun.: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
variety of foods and beers that
are always changing throughout
the year. For example, this past
Monday they offered a MexiBurger and then on Tuesday
had Carnitas.
I have consistently gotten Pinky’s White Trash Burger (pictured right) every single
time I’ve gone. This burger
has rightfully earned Pinky’s
label of Championship Burger.
We’re talking a 5 oz burger
topped with provolone cheese,
fried pickles, onion rings and
a spicy ranch sauce. Again,
Pinky’s pulls at my Southern
heart strings. The onion rings
are superb on this burger, and
how could I ever deny spicy
ranch! Also, this burger is only
$4.50! That’s cheaper than McDonalds!
For those who have
been to the Penguin and had
their fried pickles - Pinky’s are
better! Not a doubt in my mind.
They aren’t saturated in grease
like the Penguin’s, whose pickles typically soak through the
brown paper bag you get them
in, and have a warm crunch we
all love so much. Truly perfect.
I’m desperate to try so
many other things though including the Viking Corn Dog,
The Pinky Dog, the Stray Dog,
and any burger done Ding
Dong Style; crunchy peanut
butter, honey-cilantro slaw and
hot sriracha sauce! I’m sorry,
I barely know what half that
is but yes, I do want it in my
mouth. The fried squash is very
delectable as well. Sliced soso thin, basically squash chips,
and again fried to perfection!
Go to Pinky’s if you
know what’s good for you. I’m
completely serious too. It’s fan-
Photo provided by Creative Loafing: Charlotte
The White Trash Burger at Pinky’s.
(Looks better in color - we swear)
tastic food, a really comfortable
cool atmosphere, good beers,
great people, phenomenal prices; you can’t really go wrong.
But also, it’s impressive how local they really are.
So much of their food is locally made, is a local favorite;
a vast selection of local beers;
display opportunity for local
artists; and events that promote
local scenes around the Queen
City. I’ve been nothing but
impressed by this place and I
know you will be too. If you
haven’t been, GO! If you’ve
been, GO AGAIN!
America’s continued success,
she said.
Several large, growing
nations like China, Brazil and
India are positioning to surpass
the U.S as the leading global
economic leader in the future,
she warned.
However, each has its
own problems to fix. Rice posed
Queens students a thought-provoking question about China’s
fear and rejection of the Internet: “If a country is so terrified
of the Internet, can it lead the
knowledge-based revolution? I
think not.”
Condoleezza Rice answers questions
Continued from page 1
troubling issue. “It’s puzzling
and a little ironic that the United States’ tertiary education is
the gold standard. There’s no
place that people would rather
send their kids than the United
States of America.”
Talent, innovation and
creativity will set the U.S apart
from the rest of the world, she
said.
Yet, she added, “the
crisis in K-12 education may
well be our greatest national security crisis.” If Americans are
denied the ability to improve
their lives through education, as
she did when she moved from
segregated Birmingham to Stanford University and then to one
of the top positions in the U.S.
government, “we will turn on
each other. And we won’t be
confident. And we won’t lead.”
Repairing the U.S. education
system will be essential to
The Queens Chronicle
8
October 31, 2011
Sports
High rankings bring high expectations
By CJ Deberg
craig.deberg@rexmail.queens.
edu
Three years ago, five
inexperienced freshmen jumped
on board the Queens Men’s
basketball program with hopes
of rebuilding a team. Today,
on the brink of their senior seasons, Sean Eads, Preston Newlin, D.J Cheek, Josh Twitty and
Dan Bailey are set to make one
last push to imprint their legacy
on the Queens basketball program. “We want people to remember us as the players who
turned the program around,”
says senior co-captain and point
guard Sean Eads. “Hopefully
our work ethic over the past
years will give future players
the foundation of what needs
to be done every single day.
It’s hard to believe it’s our last
year, but we expect it to be the
best year yet.”
Expectations are high.
In preseason rankings, Queens
is 15th in the country in
NCAA Division II and second
in Conference Carolinas, just
behind Limestone College. The
Royals set a program record
last year with 13 consecutive
wins en route to the conference
regular season title and a 16-2
conference and 21-8 overall
record. Four starters from last
year are back, though the team
will miss Reggie Hopkins, who
graduated as Queens’ all-time
leading scorer.
The Men’s Basketball Team at Queens is currently ranked 2nd in the conference (15th overall)
“We have our own
personal and short-term expectations, but we want to live
up to all our hype,” says Eads,
originally from Greenville, S.C.
“We’re an older team; we have
played with each other for
years now and most importantly
we’re confident in our abilities. We can play with any team
when we do the right things.”
While
the
Queens
community has high expectations for their basketball team,
the players have their own expectations for this year’s fan
support. “We want to see the
support continue to grow. Hopefully Queens can do a better
job getting the word out about
our games and come up with a
means of transportation for the
students. This year could be
special. We want everyone to
have a part in it,” says WHO
SAID THIS?
Not only is this a big
year for Queens basketball on
the court, it’s also the first year
Under Armour is serving as
the team’s main clothing sponsor. “This will definitely help
our recruiting process in fu-
Photo prvoded by Queens Athletics
ture years,” says wingman Josh
Twitty. “Being represented by
such a great company like Under Armour will allow us to
bring in better players. We just
get a lot more gear. Who can
complain about that?”
The team’s second preseason game is scheduled Nov.
5 against Clemson.
Football fans explore their fantasy:
students compete
By Kristine Kapatos
kristine.kapatos@rexmail.
queens.edu
Although Queens does
not have a football program,
many students are still cheering for their own team come
Sunday afternoon.
We’re talking about
Fantasy Football. For those
who don’t know, Fantasy Football is a fun, yet competitive,
virtual interaction in which
people build and manage their
own football team.
Before each football
season, league members get together and have an online draft
in which teams are decided.
Each person is allotted a certain amount of position players
–quarterbacks, running backs,
wide receivers, tight ends,
kickers, and defense. Each position has a different scoring
system and has the potential to
contribute to the overall team
score that’s added up at the
end of the week.
Over the course of the
season, each team will play
each other and at the end season, the team with the best re-
cord is crowned champion.
“The draft is fairly
important so you get a solid foundation for your team,”
says Maryland freshman, Justin
Gayo.
“And a lot of work
goes into deciding who to
play,” adds Jimmy Chickerella,
a freshman from Ohio. “You
have to base it on past success
your players have recently had,
and how good the team you’re
playing is.”
Why is this fantasy
league so appealing? Because
it is just that –your football
fantasy. It gives every fan the
opportunity to draft their favorite players from various
NFL teams, onto a single team
which they represent.
“I have players from
the Detroit Lions, Baltimore
Ravens, Green Bay Packers,
Atlanta Falcons, San Diego
Chargers, Arizona Cardinals
and Minnesota Vikings,” says
Gayo. “Fantasy Football lets
you feel like you have complete control over NFL players.”
“We play because it’s
fun,” adds California native,
Casey Hock. “It keeps us busy
and makes the games more
interesting to watch. We play
mainly for bragging rights.”
With Queens’ students
hailing from all around the nation, it’d be hard to find an
NFL team not represented on
campus, making for a diverse
array of teams being watched
every Sunday. So instead of sitting in the stands at the Sports
Complex, cheering with foam
fingers for a Queens’ football
team, fans gather ‘round from
Barnhardt to Belk, laptops in
hand, ready to record their own
teams’ tackles and touchdowns.
“During the regular
season, it gets really competitive,” Austin Oswinkle, a freshman from Rhode Island explains, “especially when you
play someone you really want
to beat. When I get matched
up against my dad it gets real
heated.”
“Friendships have been
lost due to Fantasy games,”
Gayo jokes.
Six Strategies for Fantasy Football:
- Draft a lot of Running Backs- RBs touch the ball more, which
means they get hit a lot more. Having the right late round running back is like having a fantasy football golden ticket.
- Reach for the players you want- Don’t play it safe! Follow
your instincts and snag the players you want in the early rounds
of the draft.
- Don’t draft a Quarter Back in the first round- This is a rule
that is old and being questioned often, but any position where
you only start one player needs to be waited on.
- Draft a backup Quarter Back- Quarterbacks are easily injured,
so to have a little breathing room, drafting a back-up QB is
smart.
-Don’t draft a tight end until you have all your starting RBs,
WRs, and QB- there is no reason to reach for a top tier tight
end. There were 57 points separating the top 10 tight ends last
season, whereas there were 113 points separating the top 10 running backs, so grab your tight end in the 3rd through 5th rounds.
- Always fill a RB/WR/TE spot with a running back- There will
be times during the season that you’ll have to throw a receiver
or a tight end in there, but don’t draft with that as your goal. A running back with 15 touches will often rack up more points
than a receiver with 5-10 targets.
Tips courtesy of Fanduel.com:
<http://www.fanduel.com/insider/2011/07/21/fantasy-football-2011draft-strategy-tips-to-live-by/>